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Intentional Evolution

A whole new phase in the evolution of life on Earth has begun. And it will change everything. In this new phase evolution will be driven intentionally by humanity. The evolutionary worldview that emerges from understanding this role has the…

Individualism vs. collaboration

Completely individualistic societies do not work, nor do completely collective ones. A person on his or her own is not capable of surviving, and a person who lacks identity, because he or she is mimicked in the mass, becomes a…

What Was Humanity’s First Cultural Revolution?

We live in a fast-moving, technology-dominated era. Happiness is fleeting, and everything is replaceable or disposable. It is understandable that people are drawn to a utopian vision. Many find refuge in the concept of a “return” to an idealized past—one…

For the right to public education: care, transformation and social justice

At the 12th Regional Assembly of CLADE, the theme that concerns the network was discussed: the human right to education from the perspectives of the subjects of rights and actors who fight for the possibility of fully exercising this right…

Education: Putting lessons learned in pandemics into practice

There are more than five million students in primary and secondary education in more than ten thousand educational establishments in the country. The diversity is gigantic and no other state institution has the territorial coverage that education has. It is…

Community organizing: Elderly and street children advocates

by Edward M. Gerlock Edward M. Gerlock storifies below the principles, dynamics, and power of community organizing as a sequel to his Priestly solidarity with poor farmers, “Father, did you not realize that to oppose the banana companies is subversion!”, and American priest…

New paradigm for education

Much is said about the need for a substantive change in the education of children and young people. So much so that today there is a need for a paradigm shift, which is defined as: “A theory or set of…

Mirada Violeta – The human right to education

The Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE) is a plural network of civil society organisations, with a presence in 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, which promotes social mobilisation and political advocacy to defend the…

I like the students who in recent history have rebelled against an education policy based on violence.

On my screen I read a news item (1) from emol that says: “Study reveals that 36% of educational establishments perceive worse levels of violence than in 2019”. Marcelo Castillo Duvauchelle First of all, I am very preoccupied by the…

Chile: Let’s revalue education

Figures released by the Chilean Ministry of Education on school dropout rates for the year 2021 indicate that nearly 40,000 school-age children and young people abandoned their studies in the last year, 53% of whom are male and 46%, female.…

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